[liberationtech] Tox Skype Alternative

2014-03-20 Thread Travis McCrea
, just a privacy advocate trying to stay up with latest communication trends. Travis McCrea Pirate Party of Canada -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

[liberationtech] Open Letter To US Customs

2013-09-04 Thread Travis McCrea
This outlines my experience yesterday at the border. http://falkvinge.net/2013/09/04/open-letter-to-us-border-patrol-cbp/ tl;dr - because I am the leader of a Canadian political party I might be a terrorist-- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations

Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-02 Thread Travis McCrea
and I thought this could make some money I would do it. Travis McCrea http://www.travismccrea.com USA: 1(206) 552-8728 / CAN: 1(778) 709-4859 Candidate for the Canadian Pirate Party in the Vancouver Centre riding. Any views stated in this email are my own and do not reflect the opinions

Re: [liberationtech] Scramble.io, Round Two

2013-08-28 Thread Travis McCrea
I think my only complaint (that doesn't seem to be mentioned, though I could have missed it) is that the email address is generated with your key. This means that you have to create a whole new email account every 6 - 12 months for optimal security. I would suggest that you should allow people

Re: [liberationtech] Piratebrowser?

2013-08-10 Thread Travis McCrea
I know that Pirate Linux started as a Pirate Party of Canada project, however, I am unsure if it is still being maintained. Though anyone who would like to help us out we would obviously be greatly appreciative of it. On 2013-08-10, at 6:02 PM, lilo wrote: On 10/08/2013 23:32, Mikael MMN-o

Re: [liberationtech] Bring some UX/UI help to open secure apps

2013-07-13 Thread Travis McCrea
I have talked about this in the past, we need to make things look nice otherwise they are not going to be used and they lose their security advantages. I will give a case and point, I recently revoked my old GPG key because it's been active for over a year and I know that my computer has been

Re: [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger

2013-07-10 Thread Travis McCrea
I would point to Texutal* as a model that does this and works, they release their source code -- but you have to compile it yourself. I don't have an IDE on my computer anymore, and probably would be too lazy to go through the hassle of trying to compile their program than to just give them $3

[liberationtech] Dual Citizens and Information Collection

2013-06-12 Thread Travis McCrea
, and in general I am very much a dual citizen (as opposed to having dual citizenship). I was wondering if you guys had any ideas on how to potentially leverage that to perhaps sue the CIA in an effort to ensure they are not collecting any data on Travis McCrea the Canadian who is Travis McCrea

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptocat: Translation Volunteers Needed

2013-06-11 Thread Travis McCrea
To be honest, if you are not in a situation that needs cryptocat anyway, and Nadim doesn't make any money from you using cryptocat... and it means less hostile bug reports from you... why would he want you to? No one is forced to use the program, yes, Opera might be used by people we would

[liberationtech] So, I was buying my nephew a bond...

2013-06-10 Thread Travis McCrea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I was going to buy my nephew a savings bond for his birthday (he is one, what else can you really get him?) and I was trying to sign up on treasurydirect.gov and was appauled by the security so I thought I would share. First they have all these

Re: [liberationtech] Canadian phone and Internet surveillance program revealed

2013-06-10 Thread Travis McCrea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 The Pirate Party of Canada has issued a release on this, due to Canadians interest in themselves we are focusing on Canadian surveillance of Canadians rather than foreign cooperation. https://www.pirateparty.ca/newsletter/warrantless-surveillance/

[liberationtech] [Meta] Mailman to /r/LiberationTech Subreddit bot

2013-06-08 Thread Travis McCrea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I have been considering establishing a /r/LiberationTech subreddit, and then building a bot which would submit new threads on the website for each new topic that was created here on the mailing list. Pros: Gives people who use reddit, don't like

[liberationtech] Google Denies PRISM Involvement

2013-06-07 Thread Travis McCrea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html I do believe them, but I have no proof to back that up. You would assume they wouldn't make a bold faced lie, they would just not talk about it. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2

Re: [liberationtech] Flaming Google

2013-05-31 Thread Travis McCrea
I don't know how many people watch Doctor Who, and I hate to use it as my example, but there was a planet where people used items of emotional value as currency. This is kinda how I see the future of the Internet going: People trade various details of their life, and they get various services

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-22 Thread Travis McCrea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Either I missed it, or it wasn't posted: dod.net is a wonderful 501(c)3 which has a great distributed network of servers and is super big on privacy protection and their clients data. It's free to host with them, but they ask for donations. Also

Re: [liberationtech] Please Vote on Reply to Question

2013-03-21 Thread Travis McCrea
No, it just shows that people didn't understand the rules of voting. Nothing else. Travis McCrea Pirate Party of Canada The Ultimate Ebook Library Kopimist Church of Idaho Phone: 1(206)552-8728 US Call/Text IRC: irc.freenode.net, irc.pirateirc.net (TeamColtra or TravisMcCrea) Web

Re: [liberationtech] list reply-all

2013-03-20 Thread Travis McCrea
someone has clicked reply all when they only meant to click reply) for recent example http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/11/28/reply-all-nyu-student-emails-school I see zero need to change it. Travis McCrea Pirate Party of Canada The Ultimate Ebook Library Kopimist Church of Idaho Phone: 1(206